Shearman & Sterling advised the previous shareholders of MeinAuto GmbH, including Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH, Global Founders Capital GmbH & Co., Beteiligungs KG Nr. 1, Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures GmbH and Herrn Nicolas Leutwiler, on the sale of their shares to the U.K. investment firm HgCapital.

The online platform MeinAuto.de is Germany’s leading online website for new car sales. MeinAuto, founded in 2007, is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The company has over 16 million visitors per year and is connected to more than 9,000 car dealers.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke is advising TiGenix, an advanced biopharmaceutical company listed on Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ (TIG), in connection with the intended acquisition by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”).

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is advising Schoeller Industries, Amsterdam/Pullach, the holding company owned by the Schoeller family and the founding shareholder in Schoeller Allibert Group, in connection with the sale of the stake held by its co-shareholder, J.P. Morgan, to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. and the partnering between Schoeller and Brookfield. The Schoeller family has agreed to contribute further business interests to Schoeller Allibert.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has advised private-equity house Gimv and certain individual shareholders, including CEO Armin Pohl, on their disposal of Mackevision group to Accenture.

Cologne – Marketing and IT agency Cocomore AG has sold its e-commerce subsidiary Kairion to the ProSiebenSat.1 media group.

A CMS team headed by Dr Richard Mayer-Uellner advised Cocomore on the legal aspects of the transaction.

Kairion will become part of Advertising Platform Solutions, which brings together all of ProSiebenSat.1’s ad-tech activities. The transaction has already been completed. The purchase price was not disclosed.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised Westfield Corporation on a A$32.76bn takeover offer by European shopping centre giant Unibail-Rodamco.

The combined group will have gross market value of €61.1bn ($95.43bn), creating a global property giant with 104 assets in 27 retail markets around the world.

DLA Piper represented private equity firm Caltius Equity Partners in the sale of its equity interest in national sign and lighting provider MC Sign, LLC to an affiliate of alternative investment manager Arcapita Investment Management US Inc.

New York Stock Exchange listed Dover Corporation acquires Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH and its affiliated entities in Germany and in the US. Ettlinger will become part of Dover’s Swiss business unit Maag Pump & Filtration Systems. Taylor Wessing has been advising the owners as seller in this transaction. Ettlinger manufactures and distributes filtering solutions for the plastics industry and plastics recycling industry as well as injection molding machinery.

Shoosmiths has advised on the management buy-out (MBO) of The Quarr Group, a leading provider of building maintenance and construction, contract cleaning and contract catering.

The Quarr Group has been acquired by its management team, who included Brian Warren, Nelson Williams and Simon Ingram; the Managing Directors of the Quarr Group's subsidiaries: Nviro, Pabulum and Mountjoy, respectively.

A Bryan Cave M&A and private equity team, led by Frankfurt Office Managing Partner Tobias Fenck, recently advised a majority shareholder of JobRouter AG, headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, on the sale of a majority participation to the private equity company Main Capital. The new investor provides the company new growth capital. The goal of the investment is the development of the business model for BPM and document management, international expansion as well as strategic add-on acquisitions.